Whats the deal with E85?

[Mark Leasure]

I have noticed that the E85 around Eagan/Bloomington/Burnsville Holiday stations is reading around E79??? Anyone else notice low content percentages around the metro?

[scheides]

Basically we're getting effed I think. Been that way all summer:

http://mitsustyle.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26283

effint stupid.

[munchgsx]

I noticed that the blend switched about a month ago. I did have some good stuff for about a month though.

[Mark Leasure]

I have never seen E84 like last summer. Not once, it's always been E79-80.

[Kracka]

Crazy...blenders are leaving some profit on the table with blend rates like that.

[goodhart]

Hughes do you think it has anything to do with the big corn shortage this summer?

[Kracka]

Hughes do you think it has anything to do with the big corn shortage this summer?
No; ethanol production still exceeds demand. There is no corn shortage yet, the shortage will begin once the current crop comes off the fields. The market price of corn is high enough to cause demand destruction so ethanol will continue being available and won't be going away in the near future.

[Murlo26]

No; ethanol production still exceeds demand. There is no corn shortage yet, the shortage will begin once the current crop comes off the fields. The market price of corn is high enough to cause demand destruction so ethanol will continue being available and won't be going away in the near future.

Yep this...the drought this year is going to own corn prices coming forth, it has already. I drove through nebraska yesterday and corn fields were super dry and they were just short little guys. I guess Indiana area is getting it the worst.

Now that corn is free market, I don't see many people using it compared to before as now its just us (the car enthusiasts) and the people that use it to be "green"...which is mainly government vehicles.

[Kracka]

The corn conditions made me cry driving up from TX last month :( Basically mid-OK until northern-IA was completely destroyed. Some farmers had already cut their crop, and others just torched their fields.

[tpunx99GSX]

I watched a story on KARE 11 about the chicken farmers wanting the gov to stop the ethanol subsidy because there wont be enough corn to feed their chickens, and they showed a guy talking but in the background jessica sneared at him because it was a factory farm and not free range. and she made the comment, "If he would move to a free range method he wouldnt need as much corn to feed them as a lot of it is wasted due to the chickens trampling and shitting on their feed."
Saw a story even earlier about the price of milk going up because of corn shortage, to which i say STOP FEEDING THEM CORN and use grass instead.